Deceptive Cadence

1:48 pm

Wed May 29, 2013

We Asked, You Created: Your 'Rite Of Spring' Videos

A still from Ann Robideaux' choreography for the last minute of The Rite of Spring.

courtesy of Ann Robideaux

A few weeks ago, we asked you to take the last minute of Stravinsky's famous music for The Rite of Spring, transform it into something new and post your creations to YouTube. And boy, did you guys deliver, just in time to mark the ballet's 100th anniversary — it premiered May 29, 1913 — in brilliant fashion.

We can't say enough how much fun these have been to watch, and we hope you've had a lot of enjoyment making them. Your collective creativity and love of music are amazing. We've put together a handful of our favorites: They're beautiful, goofy, clever, thought-provoking and just plain funny — and more often than not, a combination of all of those things.

If you'd like to see the full versions of the videos we've clipped, check these out on YouTube:

A trio of dancers moving in an urban streetscape choreographed by Alexandra Pinel

Alas, some entries arrived too late for inclusion in our montage, but we heartily recommend you spend some time with them, including an intriguing narrative short filmed in San Francisco's Stern Grove Park, an extremely cool painted film by Fredecie Mageia and a pair of videos from music critic Will Robin, starring his cats Igor and Coco — yes, really — in which one of the felines may or may not be sporting a banana costume. (I can't beat New Yorker critic Alex Ross' insta-analysis of Will's oeuvre: "These dancers abjure the clichés of mimetic gesture and capture the score's interplay of tense stasis and predatory motion.")